ATI 4850/4870 voltmod thread

[largon]

So Techpowerup is mistaken in this review?:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H...ages/vreg2.jpg

The reference design HD 4850 cards all used a three phase power design which tended to get quite hot. HIS went with the four-phase route which distributes the load over more components.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H...0_IceQ4/4.html

Yep.
Infact, that HIS card is a reference board - just blue that is. The card's a carboncopy of Powercolor or MSI.

edit:
The phase controller on HD4850 is the uP6201 which supports upto 2 phases...


edit2:
Good thing you mentioned about the TPU article... I'm an editor there so I can correct the article. edit3: Aww... W1zz has locked the article. I'll just notify him.
=)